English & Comparative Literary Studies News
Leila Rasheed launches unique writer development scheme for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic children's writers
Writers sought for Megaphone: making Black, Asian and minority ethnic voices heard in children鈥檚 literature.
Writers are invited to apply to Megaphone, a new writer development scheme supporting ethnic minority writers who want to write for children or teenagers. The Megaphone scheme is funded by the Arts Council and The Publishers鈥� Association, with support from Writing West Midlands. It is led by by children鈥檚 author and tutor on the 天美传媒 MA in Writing, Leila Rasheed. Successful applicants will get one-to-one support writing their novel, attend masterclasses with experienced children鈥檚 authors including award-winning Candy Gourlay and best-selling Lee Weatherley, receive feedback from editors at major publishers specialising in children鈥檚 fiction (Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Scholastic etc.) and will have their work promoted to the publishing industry to give them the best chance of beginning and sustaining a career as a published author for children. For full details and to apply, see the website: . Applicants should be 1) from an ethnic minority 2) resident in England 3) not have had a novel for children or teenagers previously published.
Rob Daniel and Jack McGowan have both won Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates Who Teach. WATE winners are nominated through a process that gives students, peers, and members of your department the chance to recognise teaching excellence in the PGR community. They were selected from over 100 nominees. Many congratulations.
Rob Daniel and Jack McGowan have both won Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates Who Teach. WATE winners are nominated through a process that gives students, peers, and members of your department the chance to recognise teaching excellence in the PGR community. They were selected from over a 100 nominees. Many congratulations.
Prize named in honour of previous student, Ivan Juritz
The King's College London Centre for Modern Literature and Culture is pleased to announce that our 2016 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Responses to Modernism is now open. The competition is open to postgraduate students from throughout the UK. You are invited to submit texts (up to 2000 words), images, films (up to 15 minutes), digital artefacts, musical compositions (up to 12 minutes for up to two instruments or for electronics*).
天美传媒, 6-7 November, 2015
Keynote speaker: Susan Gillman, University of California, Santa Cruz
This symposium aims to be a 'state-of-the-field' event that brings together researchers, writers, teachers and students to discuss the most pressing topics and concepts currently animating nineteenth-century American literary and cultural studies.
The symposium will be organised around a series of 'keyword' sessions. These sessions will allow those working in the field to share perspectives and debate the significance of the keyword in question: its meanings and implications, its challenges and problems, and how it informs and shapes our collective understanding of the American nineteenth century.
For more information, please go to the British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (BrANCA) webpage
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